Hesperocallis undulata

Marguerite English meenglis@meenglis.cts.com
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:16:10 PDT
In its native area (desert)  it grows in pure sand and very deep (I once 
dug down almost 3 ft and still was only seeing stem.) 


J.E. Shields wrote:
> Josh and all,
>
> I've had one for years.  It makes a leaf or two in some years, nothing 
> at all in most years.  It has never bloomed, and it may well be dead 
> now -- I have not dumped it out in the last several years.
>
> I grow it (if that's what you want to call storing it in a dry pot for 
> years at a time without visible growth) in a deep pot in nearly pure 
> sand.  It sits outdoors in most summers and gets natural rain.  Some 
> years it sits inside the greenhouse for the whole year.
>
> I clearly don't know how to grow it.
>
> Jim Shields
> in hot, humid, miserable central Indiana
>
>
> At 03:36 PM 8/4/2010 -0700Josh wrote:
>> Has anyone been able to keep this plant alive?  It is for sure a very
>> interesting plant with foliage and bloom interest!
>
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